3 occurrences in 13 translations

'Bitter' in the Bible

Those of you who are making justice taste bitter, and who have thrown righteousness to the ground:

Verse ConceptsBitter FoodNo JusticeBitterness

Can horses run on rocky cliffs? Can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into a poisonous plant, and the fruit of righteous actions into a bitter plant.

Verse ConceptsPloughingPoisonTilling The SoilBitter FoodNo Justice

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessHairsHeadsMourningSorrowWeepingThe Only ChildNo MusicMourning DeathOnly Child Of PeopleFestivals DisregardedMourning Due To CatastropheBitterness

Bible Theasaurus

Bitterly (51 instances)
Blistering (1 instance)
Malicious (32 instances)
Sulfurous (1 instance)
Sulphurous (1 instance)
Taint (1 instance)

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